Sessionboard Launches AI Evaluations: The First AI Tool to Automate Session Selection

Ready to review your call for content? Meet your new co-pilot for session selection.

Atlantic Beach, FL — May 20, 2025: Sessionboard, the leading speaker and content management platform for conferences and corporate events, today announced the launch of the first AI-powered session submission and speaker evaluations tool. AI Evaluations is the first of its kind, designed to streamline and scale the session submission review process. The release marks a major step forward in helping event teams reduce reviewer fatigue, ensure consistency, and accelerate programming decisions.

An Industry Bottleneck: Solved 

Conference organizers are drowning in submissions. With hundreds - even thousands—of proposals flooding in for each event, most teams struggle to keep up. Reviewers burn out, responses trickle in, quality feedback is impacted, and program decisions are rushed too late in the planning process. 

Here is what we heard from event content teams: 

• “I do about 90% of proposal reviewing all by myself… It’s grueling.”
•  “We shut down submissions early—we just don’t have the bandwidth.”
•  “Consistency across reviewers? Nearly impossible.”
•  “Reviewing each submission thoroughly is so time consuming and tedious for our team.”

The process is unsustainable. 

Many teams don’t even make it through the full list of submissions. Others shut down their call-for-papers early. For many, keeping evaluators on-task becomes its own full-time job.

Sessionboard built AI Evaluations to directly address this. 

Meet The First Ever AI Evaluations Assistant

Developed in response to direct customer feedback, Sessionboard AI Evaluator Assistants reduces the workload for event content teams, improves consistency, and helps ensure that every submission is evaluated fairly, with expert feedback, and in a timely manner. 

Custom Reviewer Personas

Have full customization of reviewer personas. AI reviewers can reflect your team’s tone, content criteria, and priorities. Personas can be set as positive, neutral, or constructive feedback tendencies and they can answer all types of questions including numeric, yes/no, and short and long form answers.

Instant Feedback & Scoring

Submissions are evaluated against your rubric in minutes, with concise summaries and scores.

Feedback from AI Evaluators:

• Accelerates speaker selection process
• Is actually helpful feedback (not just yes/no)
• Provides massive time savings
• Has a 100% completion rate (no more chasing reviewers!)

Real-Time Dashboards‍

Track top submissions, reviewer alignment, and evaluation progress in one central view.

Quality Suggestions

Receive AI-generated insights to improve session titles, formats, or focus.

AI That Assists, Not Replaces

Sessionboard’s AI isn’t a replacement for your team - it’s a co-pilot. Designed to complement human judgment, not override it. AI Evaluations helps organizers focus on the sessions that truly matter.

Comparing Human vs. AI Evaluations: 

Evaluation Plans: Human vs. Virtual

• Human evaluations: weeks of back-and-forth, or a long meeting/Zoom that's hard to schedule and coordinate
• AI evaluations: review hundreds of evaluations in minutes

What Early Users Are Saying

As part of early testing, Sessionboard collected feedback from conference leaders across a wide range of industries—and the enthusiasm was immediate:

"Life changing...especially for a one-person review team like mine!"

• “This would save so much time and could even give us a baseline to share with evaluators!”
•  “It could offer substantial insights and save time.”
•  “Incredible... I think about the thousands of submissions for our event and how much time it takes.”

The Future of Event Programming Starts Here

This launch marks the first ever AI-driven tool for session and speaker selection - with more to come. By combining a Speaker CRM with real-time AI feedback, Sessionboard is creating the ultimate content engine for event teams to program smarter events, faster.

A No-Brainer Win for Conference Teams

For event marketers and conference managers looking for a fast, impactful way to bring AI into their workflow - this is it. It's intuitive, optional, and already delivering results.

"We had 208 session reviews from AI Evaluators in 3 minutes!"

If you're still managing your call-for-papers process by hand - this is your sign to upgrade.

👉 Learn more or request early access.
📩 Press Contact: Chris Carver – chris@sessionboard.com
🌐 Website: www.sessionboard.com